A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes.

See with hobnails, as a shoe.

Familiar, social intercourse.

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living.

See Hobnob.

A hautboy or oboe.

The crested curassow; -- called also royal pheasant. See Curassow.

Hotchpot.

The state of having been pawned; usually preceded by in; as, all her jewelry is in hock.

A Rhenish wine.

A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide.

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

The mallow.

To hamstring; to hock; to hough.

One who cheats or deceives.

To cheat.

A kind of wooden tray with a handle, having V-shaped trough, made of wood or metal, attached to a long handle and usually carried over the shoulder; it is a tool used by construction workers for carrying bricks or mortar.

A construction worker whose main function is to carry construction materials in a hod{1}.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants.

See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

An awkward or foolish person.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot.

Of this day; belonging to the present day.

A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

See Dodman.

A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

A device for measuring the length of a path, consisting of a wheel of known circumference attached to a rod held in the hand, and pushed along a surface, which is usually the ground or a floor. The number of times the wheel makes a complete circle multiplied by the circumference is a measure of the length of the path traversed. It may be used to measure distances on curved as well as straight paths. A variant which registers the miles and rods traversed is sometimes used by surveyors.

A blind god; misled by Loki he kills Balder by throwing a bough of mistletoe.

To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe.

A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Careful; wary.

To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

A hogback.

An earth-covered Navajo lodge; it is traditionally built with the entrance facing east.

An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.

A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

An American sole (Achirus lineatus syn. Achirus achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

A shed for swine; a sty.

A large West Indian and Florida food fish (Lachnol/mus). The pigfish or sailor's choice. An American fresh-water fish; the log perch. A large, red, spiny-headed, European marine fish (Scorp/na scrofa).

A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame, and hogback.

Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.

A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.

The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump.

The top pump in the pit.

A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.

Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

A young boar of the second year.

Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging.

Swinish; gluttonous; filthy; selfish.

A hill; a cliff.

A swineherd.

The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant.

The pignut. In England, the Bunium flexuosum, a tuberous plant.

High flavor; strong scent.

A pen or sty for hogs.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.

One who puts rings into the snouts of hogs.

A distance line drawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.

Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.

A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

Swill.

A common weed (Ambrosia artemisi/ge). See Ambrosia, 3. In England, the Heracleum Sphondylium.

To romp rudely or indecently.

State of being a hoiden.

Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.

To hoist.

Hoisted.

A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom.

To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.

Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.

Same as Hockday.

Scorn; derision; abusive talk.

The northernmost of the main islands of Japan. Together with the islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan.

Whole.

Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively designating a realm or region including the northern parts of the Old and the New World. It comprises the Palearctic and Nearctic regions or subregions.

Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece.

The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; grip; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.

To rob, usually at gunpoint or knifepoint.

a capacious bag or basket.

Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

One who, or that which, holds.

One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. See hold forth (b) under hold.

Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long flat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.

A company that controls other independently incorporated companies by ownership of most or all of their stock, but does not directly control the daily operations of those companies.

a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms after most other participants have signed an agreement; as, their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks.

Any person or thing remaining from a previous period of use, tenure, etc; an official who remains in office after his term.

a robbery, usually at gunpoint.

To go or get into a hole.

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.

A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

having pores or holes.

See Halibut.

See Halidom.

Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

being excessively or hypocritically pious while condemning others as being less virtuous than oneself.

Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.

The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.

Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.

See Hollo, v. i.

A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.

Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Gin made in Holland.

To call out or exclaim; to halloo.

Same as Hollo.

To urge or call by shouting.

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

having a cavity within; as, canoe made of a hollowed log.

Insincerely; deceitfully.

State of being hollow.

serving dishes of silver having some depth in the bowl; contrasted with flatware.

A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.